Jermaine Jackson described how paramedics continued to try to revive Michael in the ambulance and how staff at UCLA did the same thing.
“Upon arriving at the hospital at 1.14pm, a team of doctors, including emergency physicians and a cardiologist, worked to resuscitate him for a period of more than one hour but were unsuccessful,” Jermaine said.
Michael Jackson was officially pronounced dead at 2.26pm, two hours and four minutes after the first emergency call was placed from his home.
He had been rehearsing hard for a 50-date concert tour starting at the O2 arena in London on July 13. Colleagues who saw him at his last rehearsal at the Staples Center, a sports arena and convention center in downtown Los Angeles, have said he showed no signs of major distress, although he looked thin and frail.
Family and members of his concert entourage had expressed concern over the past two months that Jackson was not physically up to the tour.
The date of the first concert was put back by six days, ostensibly to give more time to rehearse.
The whole tour was widely regarded as a big risk for the promoter, AEG Live, which has sunk more than US$20 million into the project and will have to refund tickets to about 750,000 fans. Jackson had a track record of canceling tour dates and provoking lawsuits. AEG Live has been embroiled in a dispute with another promoter that alleged the entire tour was a breach of its own contract with Jackson.
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